Title:BOOTY FROM THE GERMANS; WATER SUPPLIES IN NORTH AFRICA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 372/1/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: German equipment captured after the attack on Tallyho Corner, Tunisia on 27 February. The workings of a water purification point in Tunisia.
Description: German guns including 2cm dual purpose guns and an anti-tank, anti-aircraft mobile infantry gun. Also shown are grenades, rifles, sticky bombs and machine guns. Piles of equipment including steel helmets and respirators taken from the dead and prisoners. Parachute containers.
The pool and float at the water purification plant, containing mud and silt filters. The autominor. Starting the pump motor. The outlet pipe and storage tanks. The booster pump being started. Water entering the storage tank. Two soldiers filling two-gallon cans from the storage tank using small hand pumps. The water attendant directing the hose from the storage tank into his truck. Water entering the truck. The filled water truck moving off. The stream and the autominor. Tanks and two water trucks on the roadside. Sergeant Brown of the Royal Army Medical Corps enters the autominor. His assistant takes the bucket to the rear of the autominor and pours the purification filter medium (kieselguhr) into the bucket. Sergeant Brown operating valves. The assistant opens the filter draining doors and mixes fresh kieselguhr with water. He pours the fresh mixture into the filter funnel. The pressure gauge rises as the filter is brought back into service. Sergeant Brown and the assistant making chlorine content tests. A water truck is filled as other trucks and tanks wait. The water truck moving into the distance.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
